Brooklyn College

As a combative defense attorney, Alan M. Dershowitz cut his teeth representing such controversial public figures as Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson. Today the Harvard Law School professor continues to make headlines with his outspoken views on everything from free speech (for) to torture (against). “Speech is very dangerous and very harmful and yet the arguments for censoring it are not as persuasive as the arguments for enduring the dangers and trying to prevent the outcomes in different ways,â€ said Dershowitz, in a lecture at the Woody Tanger Auditorium at Brooklyn College. An alumnus of Brooklyn College, class of 1959, Prof. Dershowitz, who donated his papers to the college’s library in 2005, discusses his 27th book, “Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in the Age of Terrorism,â€ in which he argues the third President’s views on the limits of free speech.Listen Now

The move to a “green economyâ€ is just around the corner and it will prove to be biggest economic revolution of our time, heralds Prof. Robert Bell, Professor of Management and Chairman of the Economics Department at Brooklyn College. Speaking at the Brooklyn College Sustainability Roundtable, Prof. Bell explains why moving away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy is possible now, why it hasn’t happened yet and how tomorrow’s economy will “turn waste into wealth.â€Listen Now